I don't totally agree. He did a really good job under Polanski's direction in "Carnage" in my opinion But it's true that no other director can direct him as good as he appears in the 2 Tarantino's movies
The cool thing here is that Fassbender's german actually sounds pretty good, but still not good enough to be convincing, which fits the scene really well.
For anyone interested in how obvious Fassbender's "off" accent is... His german is pretty good. However, there are slight differences to what most Germans would talk like. His vocabulary is very formal, but that's not all. For one, he tends to over-enunciate. He also has very slight trouble pronouncing the "ch", which is particularly prominent in the first sentence 0:08 "Das geht Sie niCts an, OberfeldwebEl" Overstressing the last e in Oberfeldwebel, which most Germans would swallow and struggling with the ch. Other instances where overenunciation is obvious is at 0:34 belästigEn, 2:23 geborEn instead of geboorn, and 2:31 habEn. Another slight mispronunciation is how he sometimes doesn't speak the p hard enough; same with the z. you can hear this at 0:16 rüüBelhaften, instead ohif rüpelhaften. and 0:36 (z)surückkehrEn. Riefenstahl also doesn't quite sound right. The sentence at 2:38 then is an absolute disaster, as it has all the things you'd look for. Meaning, it's a VERY hard sentence. He pronounces it: Erinen sie sic an an die schi-scene, Correctly it would be Erinnern sie sich an die Schi-SZene. sz is hard. I know this sounds like a lot of stuff, but it really isn't very noticeable unless you want to notice it. And, in conclusion, once you can deliver the sentence "Sie, mit Ihrem rüpelhaftem Benehmen, erinnern Sie sich an die Skiszene aus dem Riefenstahl Film?" without raising suspicion, you should be pretty good to go.
Best thing to do is use the truth. *in German, "I'm American, my parents are German from that mountain, I joined up when The Furher asks all good Germans to join"
@@SuperChuckRaney Not quite sure how well that would have worked, but it might have been worth a try. It is ridiculously hard to pass as a native german I'd say.
@@SuperChuckRaney given the fact that America was democratic and even they were arresting random Japanese and German people I wouldn’t be too sure a military dictatorship would let him get away with that story
I'm pretty sure he spoke with an accent on purpose. He is supposed to be playing an Englishman pretending to be German. Listen to him speak German in Xmen First Class, and you'll see it sounds much more natural.
DartLuke I seriously doubt this was intentional. I checked the X-men scene again and I'm sure the only reason his accent doesn't sound quite as strong is because the dialogue is a lot shorter.
German sounds like a beautiful, sophisticated and precise language. Also, not to sound stereotypical but also the perfect language to shout out commands, just like Hugo Stiglitz does in this scene.
truefilm it’s hard acting in not your native tongue. Same goes to Asian actors/actresses. In the movie hero & crouching tiger etc, everyone is amazing, yet their English speaking roles are awful.
Ben you dont understand. Til schweiger is one of the worst german actors. His one and only good movie is inglorious bastards and thats because he dies.
Liliya Leto thats your opinion. I just think he is horrific. My favorite german actor still is Daniel Brühl. (I dont consider waltz as german but rather austrian)
The whole pub sequence is something most directors wouldn’t be able to get away with. A minutes-long sequence in a foreign language, and a tell that only people familiar with that language and culture would be able to catch right away on the first viewing. The way he uses not just the camera, but sound throughout the scene tells the viewers everything they need to know.
His arrogance and foolishness got everyone killed. He brought attention to the entire table by talking, not only talking but going on a tirade scolding the young german soldier. If he had just allowed another one of the Germans at the table to take care of the situation in a calmer manner. So many people would have lived. This scene is awesome, and it offers us all a lesson on not being impulsive.
It wasn’t arrogance He was doing what a stereotypical German officer would do It’s just that the sergeant caught his accent and made a big deal about it cause he was drunk, instead of keeping it to himself Which in turn, caught the attention of the SS officer Historically though, the German anti-intelligence was absolutely terrible The Brit’s were able to infiltrate almost everything except the German high command They knew about a great number of attacks, and were able to coordinate a number of anti-intelligence operations themselves because of their infiltration Something like this, at that time, wouldn’t have gone down how it happened in the film
I agree but I believe they were caught the minute they walked through that door. It was sealed after one of them spoke. You don't get past a a high ranking Nazi officer with such an elementary plan. I bet you "hypothetically" he knew they couldn't have existed because he knew all of his men.
Everything happened because it's in the script, not because it would be "smarter" or makes "more sense"...everything in any movie is happening because it's in the script, that's always the answer.
+Robert Conlee If I had to guess, I'd say Tarantino knew his accent would sound off naturally, and that's why he was chosen for the role. Otherwise there are hundreds of British actors who speak German from birth.
+The Acid Sausage It's the "r"'s, I think. I'm not even a native, but the way he just scratches his throat to make them is painful...Typical of non native German speakers that either roll their "r"s or use the English "r". And then he puts the stresses in the wrong places. Like the way he says "gesehen".
Fassbender is doing quite a good job tbh... but as a german, no way anyone would have bought that story back then or even nowadays. It sounds just TOO english ;)
Indeed. He also overpronounces the Rs, you especially hear it in "zurückkehren". He did a good job. But like Johnny already said, no one would ever buy his story. No German sounds like that, no matter what region of Germany you come from.
I guess it is mostly his accentuation of the words in the whole sentence rather than the pronunciation of single letters of a word that sounds weird for a native German speaker. And another small mistake of him: In Germany it is impolite to name yourself first (even in the absence of the persons you name) as he did on min 2:50 while this is very common in English language. He should better say my father, my sister, my two brothers and myself ...
+soldiermajor The only reason it seemed badass is because everyone waited, was scared and he took his time and in an almost robotic manner, walked straight into the silent room. The reason you wouldn't be able to achieve this nowadays, has nothing to do with personal composure, but the fact that, between shouting and arriving in the room, there would've been at least 6 people commenting on your words, including phones in the background and loud tv-screens talking about sports.
@@Widdekuu91 Imagine when you get to should out "Dürfte ich mich vielleicht erkundigen!" > close dat book > take a deep ciga breath > stand up > hold dat beer > stop the record player > slowly yet imtimidatingly move towards everyone in the room... Damn that would surely make my day!!!
+Nolliminator Thank you Michael Fassbender, for making obviously-English-sounding German a thing with women! His accent is the best I could ever hope to have as well.
00:13 Hammersmark knew his accent wasn't going to fly and get them busted from the very beginning. Look at her reaction during that timestamp! Haha its the same face she had when Aldo tries to speak Italian to Landa. Lmfao
reason being that if he were from Piz Palü he would have a swiss german accent not a french one. Bad cover up story. Its like claiming to be from London and spaking in a scottish accent
@@OrkarIsberEstar Well... that mountain is on the border between Italy and Switzerland, a very peripherical area, so it is a very nice cover up story since you can't really know how an accent from such isolated border area will sound.
@@unknownzzz5115 well just that it was in one of the most popular movies of the time, and that he actually should be fluent in italian as that would have been his first language, and german his secondary with a swiss german accent cause thats what would he have learned. Swiss german has a different dictionary from standard high german for many reasons
1:16 - The fearless major showing his refined and intelligent side - Sitting in private and reading a book at candlelight while enjoying a beer and a smoke whilst a record plays.
Johann Sebastian Bach Or he's reading one of Hicox's books on German Cinema. Hicox was a film critic but had not seen any films made during the Third Reich since they weren't imported to the UK. Hellstrom is a film buff, Hicox expected him not to have seen that Reifenstahl film and was surprised. They later play a game of "Who am I?" and Hellstrom gives Hicox a German actress who was in a film from the Third Reich era knowing he wouldn't be able to get it since he's not seen any third Reich films. Hellstrom knew all along he was a English spy and was messing with him.
@@kevinmathewson4272 the 2 give away was the hand ordering another drink and the game itself. The suspension started with the accent. Tarantino wanted more suspense and complicated because the easiest way out of this is stiglitz should've been the captain, michael should just shutup no suspension would've been raised
What you love this film. Why? Another movie that dishonoured the german army and makes the jews out to be the victims by a director who's in bed with the jewish film industry.
@@taichihead42Try speaking like this in real life. You cant. You know it. You will be grabbed by your hair and thrashed around. That is how we do it in our part of the world. Dont think for a second, none is going to do that to you. These are turbulent times. Be very mindful of what you speak, 13 year old boi. You face consequences now or later.
Fassbender's pronunciation is almost perfect, but it's not the slight accent that would've given him away - it's his story about where he claims to be from. The Piz Palü is in Switzerland and every German knows what a Swiss accent sounds like and it's nothing like what Fassbender is speaking here. If this weren't just a movie, no German would've ever bought that story.
Yes, and then someone would have tried to speak to the alleged Swiss guy in the dialect of the area, or another Swiss dialect from an area nearby, and then he would have been unable to say anything.
Todd Spencer Didn't read it correctly ;p Well idk maybe the SS officer would have gotten suspicious as hilcox would not have quieted the men as generally it is an officers duty to keep the men in line,
I think since a cap is part of the uniform, soldiers wear it even inside a building. But yeah, I hate it when a wannabe gangster wears a cap inside a pub.
Yes but kinda no Officers are not permitted to fraternise with non officers it would therefore be the officer sticking to protocol, Chances are no one would be bothered to check up in a basement however the officer was bluffing that the private would be suitably threatened and take his leave and lo and behold a SS is listening in... IF the officer waited and the SS was to step in private would be reprimanded for not leaving the table and probably wouldnt catch the accented officer.. Irony
As a german I have to admit Fassbender is doing great. Not perfect but rly great! Like in the movie, I would still be very suspicious :D. You can clearly hear how hard he tries to maintain his german xD
@@rangv733 as stated in the movie the accent is quite off, it sounds very french, but even germans who live near the french border dont have accents like that, it sounds like a frenchman speaking english. As native you clearly hear how his pronounciation is off, but given what ive heard of Fassbender in other mocvies he can spak perfect german but for this role it wouldnt have fit so he put on the accent on purpose and i can only applaud that, a lot of germans couldnt do that. Oh and just to point that out the Pitz Palü isnt even a german or french mountain its swiss...i guess Tarantino tried to use a french sounding mountain to explain the slight french accent but that was a total mistake. First, the mountain is in Graubünden (state of switzerland) so he would have a swissgerman accent / dialect not a french one, also the swiss were never in the war and not in the wehrmacht so the "cover" just made him sound even more suspiscious.
Obviuosly!, the character is not german, is english doing german!,. that's why they got in trouble!... don't you start your brains on before commenting?
+Rob Hill lol I don't know if you know Til Schweiger in any other movies but I can assure you this is his acutal face. I've never seen him doing any other expression whatsoever
Yes its because stiglitz's is an austrian jew in real life, and he only took the rule of stiglitz's for the reason he can kill a lots of nazi in a brutal way..
the weirdest part is not Fassbinders accent, but he claims to be from Piz Palu which is located in Switzerland. Swiss were not allowed to join the regular SS, although there were about 1000 Swiss in the Waffen-SS (which is however not the uniform Fassbinders is wearing).
+Dan Myshkin Fassbender's role was of a regular Wehrmacht soldier. Not sure about the SS though but there were many non-German enlisted men in Germany's regular army.
+Dan Myshkin Actually there is no difference between SS and Waffen SS to be in WF-SS you had to be a memeber of the SS. So Fassbinders uniform could be from the Waffen SS indeed it appears as such. And both the S.S and Waffen SS accept foreign volunteers especeally if they were of Germanic and European background as is the case of the Swiss.
+Imperial Guardsman it's true, many italians from Alto Adige (Sudtirol in german), the region near Austria with a majority of german speaking people, were recruited in SS
I always love when Stiglitz grabs Wilhelm and reprimands him. You can tell Stiglitz had been in Wilhelm's position in the past and was drawing on how officers would tell him off.
what does willhelm say to hammersmark after the shoot out? he says something about American and bad times but can you give me the German text? I'm learning it
+Karl Lagerfeuer Nein, es hat die Konnotation "Im Gegensatz zu den beiden anderen Typen, die ich anhand ihrer Sprachfärbung problemlos nach München und Frankfurt einordnen kann, werde ich aus dem dritten überhaupt nicht schlau, und das macht mich ziemlich misstrauisch."
Many years ago I read a book on Operation Barbarossa, it was a very thick (and old) book written by historians and military experts. I remember in one of the chapters they talked about how the SS prepared their people, as well as Wehrmacht officers, to recognise soviet spies based on their behaviour and gestures. They pintpointed gestrures common to the Soviets and said, ok now we as officers should refrain from making these gestures, even when it comes natural to some of us; this way you know or at least suspect, which is close enough (after a short interrogation you know for sure). I'm sure this was the case also for the brits, and Tarantino would have read about it in the research he said to have carried prior to making the film. So, maybe there are also Germans who use the "crown fingers" to indicate three (I know there are British who use their thumb for that purpose), but for an SS officer this, together with a weird accent - which was not that weird by the way -, this was enough for a proof.
+Kinos141 The app Duolingo and the TH-cam series Easy German (both free). My spoken/written grammar isn't perfect, but I can understand spoken German (as long as they aren't rattling off 100 words per minute) and I'm reading German books now.
For me it's the pitch of the voice. I don't speak German but have worked with many for many years along with other nationalities and clearly we don't speak on the same pitch. English speakers have a low pitch, Germans are slightly higher and French and other Romance language peoples are the highest. I can't tell whether his German is good but his voice is certainly English or North American (I know he's English).
it's arabic, french is my second language (I can write and speak like a native) english is my third (I still make some flaws though) and now I'm learning german (and later i want to learn russian)
This is without doubt the best part in the entire movie. Personally I think Fassbenders character was massively underused in this film he even play it great as Lt Archie Cox his accent in this scene is supposed to give him away that's the genius of it!
I don't really know if Daniel Brühl's acting came across for people who don't speak German, but it is spot on. He is charming, determined and confident at the same time, which is excalty to be expected from SS officers, where sycophancy, ruthlessness and appearance were valued way higher than actual efficency. Same goes for Cristoph Waltz. I am from Vienna and he acts and talks exactly like someone you would meet in the Vienna State Opera going to see something by Richard Wagner.
What I like about these scene so much is two things - 1) the purity of the German language (at the time) that a native German can recognize a discrepancy, and 2) the dramatics of it like when the Major gets up and has to turn off the xylophone and everyone is just quiet and waiting for him to deliver.... Amazing scene just like the rest of the movie!
This bar scene is gripping. I never get tired of watching it. Probably the best part of the film. Obviously , one who didn’t speak german would never detect the accents. Fabulous filmaking!
How August diehl puts the LP on the Grammophon is a hilarious idea. Now he is in charge in this tavern. In Austria/Germany we say:"alles spielt nach seiner Musik!", which directly translated means:"everything is up to his music, which means, that everybody has to act like he wants to. You can see it because he becomes the cenrte of the camera. Everything depends now on him. Well not extremely difficult or smart, but still extremely fitting for taratinos style and for the scene. This is how extraordinary films are created.
In Russian language there is the same phrase, which literally is translated as "the one who orders music". And it's interesting perspective from this point of view👍
By the way, just to notice the fact that Piz Palü is a wonderful summit in the Bernina Massiv. You have a wonderful view of this giant monster Glacier from the ski resort Diavolezza (and one of the most impressive ski route through Glacier in the Alps, where you can find an igloo in the middle of nowhere and pay your beer contactless with your phone!). And the only fact that people may still a bit doubt about his accent is the fact that in this region, people speaks a quite rare language with also a very non common accent (although that you can recognize, that he has an English/American accent, but at this time, it wasn't common for people to identify it like today due to movies! I remember not having identified an American accent of a guy speaking very good French when I was young!).
I love how Tarantino plays with tension in this scene. When Wilhelm (the drunk father) notices Fassbenders accent we get a slight spike in tension, because we are afraid that he's going to get found out. When he gets yelled at is ordered off the table tho there is a small point of relief, immediately followed by the gestapo officer announcing himself and entering the scene; huge tension spike. Fassbender keeps it cool tho, using his knowledge of the German film scene to talk his way out of it and the gestapo officer seems like he believes him. They even all start laughing which really let's the viewer breathe a sigh of relief, since it seems like the conflict is resolved. However this is immediately falsified as soon as the gestapo officer has Wilhelm dragged away in that really dry, serious tone. It is at this point that the viewer realizes, that the conflict and the battle of wits between the two, has just begun. All of this and so much more in 3 and a half minutes of screen time. God damn Tarantino, you're a legend
You know, he could’ve just gotten away with saying he was raised in England as a child and returned to Germany since it was still pretty common for wealthier families of noble descent to move around
It would even explain his use of the fingers counting up to 3. In fact, he could of even said he was a German who answered the call of Germany and returned to the fatherland, which is even more believable because LOTS of foreign born Germans went to Germany to fight for the German army, not necessarily for the NAZI party but the call of the fatherland.
The amazing thing that most people are missing here in this scene is that Major Hellstrom (the SS officer in black outfit) could recognize both accents of the two germans disguised as officers, one of them got a thick bavarian accent from Munich while the other one's got a hesse accent from Frankfurt. I thought first when I saw this scene that he recognized them by their dress code, like a german officer from Munich would wear a particular outfit other than the one of an officer from Frankfurt. But now after connecting the dots backwards this scene just baffled me, the screenwriting and the acting here is just too damn good.
People from Munich never had a thick Bavarian accent though, Munich Bavarian was always a bit more subtle and "elegant". Noticeable Bavarian, but very easily distinguished from other parts. Nowadays of course it has almost disappeared completely and people in munich speak standard German.
You can clearly hear that somethings wrong with his German, it sounds too English/American. The word intonation, pauses and speed between the sentences. Just suspicious
I love the atmosphere entirely went still when Hellstorm spoke, so quiet we can hear the vinyl that we didnt ever know eas playing, and his slow, paced, self assured walk really made an impression!!
As a German it is still hilarous to me, that he talks about Fassbenders "strange" german language, if Till Schweiger is talking. For those who do not know: Till Schweigers was of talking is very strange for Germans. And Fassbenders is amazing!
I'm not even German (I'm Brazilian btw) and somehow I could spot some differences between Fassbender's German and SS officer's German. Amazing! I'm struggling to learn German, but this language is amazing indeed.
I am so late to finally watch this movie. This scene is remarkable: Even if we watch it many times, the intense is still there. Agree, those actors are very brilliant. Unbelievable.
I love the way August Diehl entered the scene:D:) I watched this movie a few times after the first initial time, to see this guy:) He's amazing in this movie - through and through...despite him playing a Gestapo officer...:) And, man, I love the uniform:)
that is stereotypically american of you - you really think everyone on this planet who's not from the US can understand a word brad pitt is saying in this movie?
Easily the best Tarantino movie. The way he created tension in this flick with the help of all these amazing actors was not present in any other of his work, including the Pulp Fiction as well. He easily outdid himself here by making this satirical masterpiece, instead of making yet another cheesy gorefest like he's usually used to
I love this scene but it also bothers me every time I watch the movie. Hugo Stiglitz was on all the newspapers, his face is well know and Dieter Hellstrom (portrayed as a sharp and well-informed fellow) should have recognized him immediately, say "fair enough" after Magneto's explanations, get out of the bar to get some sober soldiers outside, and storm the pub. Landa immediately recognized Hugo's body when he investigates the incident. But Dieter doesn't? Or he recognized him and played his little game, which was pretty stupid since he is outnumbered 3 to 1 and his back-up are a few pissed-drunk soldiers celebrating at the next table. But the "he recognized them but was just playing along for whatever reason" isn't full-proof, when Magneto makes the hand sign for 3, it looks like he finally realizes everything and takes rather suicidal actions. I don't know what to make of this (still great) scene, if anyone could help me out that would be great. Merci et au revoir les amis o/
Well, Stiglitz does seem to fit the bill of the "average while male".... But I see where you're going with that. With the war going on perhaps everyone wasn't able to see what he looked like through news paper or other media?I feel that if Hickox (Michael Fassbender) hadn't signified three in very English [non-German] way that they would have likely survived the encounter... perhaps Hellstrom would have followed them out to attempt a solo-ambush, however we will probably never know unless we were to ask Tarantino for his thoughts on the subject.
Thanks for your opinions guys, food for thought... I didn't know what "monkeyshine" was TBH, I'm French and English is my 3rd language (after German, so this movie was a treat for me languages-wise); & I don't get all the slang. . I had assumed he meant the alcohol, must have made this assumption because I know the word "moonshine", and he said that sentence just after finishing his "boot-pint" (fun fact, you can see the exact same glass in the Texas Chili Parlor from "Death Proof"... Quentin and his foot fetish, tss tss ^^) Haha now I'm even more confused, but oh well, some of the best Tarantino movies have some small plot-holes, no biggie. Thanks to ya all again o/
Alan Schulte Thanks, every time I watch this movie I make a mental note to check what it means but always forget ^^' Makes sense, thanks. The more you know...
Even the supporting cast are a lot of well-known actors in Germany just like the host who's name is Christian Berkel. He played the late german chancellor Helmut Schmidt two times and nailed it.
I wish there was a word to describe how perfect the german word "heimatlos" fits into the description of the called officer. He called the other ones by city names (Munich & Frankfurt), but goes on and calls the last unknown one "heimatlos". Heimatlos, is basically someone without a homeland? Is that the best to describe it? Idk, but you get the idea.
Yea - "heimatlos" basically means "homeland-less". But "Heim" can mean so much more than "home". When something is "unheimlich" (lit.: "un-home-ish") it actually means uncanny. So the word "Heimatlos" has, in itself, a sinister feeling to it.
Quentin Tarrantino I one of my all time favorite directors, and for me what he does best is capture a scene. I absolutely love his movies, but what I think has made him such a legend is him creating that signature scene. In Pulp Fiction the "say what again" scene, the torture scene from Mr. Blonde in Reservoir Dogs, in Kill Bill the fight against the Crazy 88 and O-Ren Ishii, and of course in Inglorious Basterds the bar scene. To many others they could pick out different scenes for each movie but for me those were some of the most memorable scenes, in amazing movies.
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Every single actor in this entire movie is so frikking good.
ikr!! Tarantino is a great director. Also he is the only one who knows how to direct Waltz.
I don't totally agree. He did a really good job under Polanski's direction in "Carnage" in my opinion
But it's true that no other director can direct him as good as he appears in the 2 Tarantino's movies
The casting in the movie is great, picking very talented actors who are bilingual
Don't you mean so friSSing good.
Well...Til Schweiger is still Til Schweiger..
The cool thing here is that Fassbender's german actually sounds pretty good, but still not good enough to be convincing, which fits the scene really well.
His german in this scene is perfect. I didn´t noticed that german is not his mother tonge.
Knowing one's accent is suspect, probably not best to shout.
It’s actually bc he used the English sign for 3. Index middle and ring vs German thumb index middle. Accent was perfect.
@@pliskin8116 No it was not. Obviously u are not a German native speaker
@@powidel2118 well no. It’s wat I heard was the climactic point.
For anyone interested in how obvious Fassbender's "off" accent is... His german is pretty good. However, there are slight differences to what most Germans would talk like. His vocabulary is very formal, but that's not all. For one, he tends to over-enunciate. He also has very slight trouble pronouncing the "ch", which is particularly prominent in the first sentence 0:08 "Das geht Sie niCts an, OberfeldwebEl" Overstressing the last e in Oberfeldwebel, which most Germans would swallow and struggling with the ch. Other instances where overenunciation is obvious is at 0:34 belästigEn, 2:23 geborEn instead of geboorn, and 2:31 habEn. Another slight mispronunciation is how he sometimes doesn't speak the p hard enough; same with the z. you can hear this at 0:16 rüüBelhaften, instead ohif rüpelhaften. and 0:36 (z)surückkehrEn. Riefenstahl also doesn't quite sound right.
The sentence at 2:38 then is an absolute disaster, as it has all the things you'd look for. Meaning, it's a VERY hard sentence. He pronounces it: Erinen sie sic an an die schi-scene, Correctly it would be Erinnern sie sich an die Schi-SZene. sz is hard.
I know this sounds like a lot of stuff, but it really isn't very noticeable unless you want to notice it. And, in conclusion, once you can deliver the sentence "Sie, mit Ihrem rüpelhaftem Benehmen, erinnern Sie sich an die Skiszene aus dem Riefenstahl Film?" without raising suspicion, you should be pretty good to go.
Omg 😂😂😂 it is very precise language.... Isn't it?
Best thing to do is use the truth.
*in German, "I'm American, my parents are German from that mountain, I joined up when The Furher asks all good Germans to join"
@@SuperChuckRaney Not quite sure how well that would have worked, but it might have been worth a try. It is ridiculously hard to pass as a native german I'd say.
@@SuperChuckRaney given the fact that America was democratic and even they were arresting random Japanese and German people I wouldn’t be too sure a military dictatorship would let him get away with that story
@@henrymccoy2306 It's true tho, Hitler asked several times for good Germans to come home and serve the Fatherland.
Wow, Fassbender pronounced the words almost perfectly in this bit. But it's true that there's still a slight accent. Still pretty amazing!
I'm pretty sure he spoke with an accent on purpose. He is supposed to be playing an Englishman pretending to be German. Listen to him speak German in Xmen First Class, and you'll see it sounds much more natural.
+therichardchannel though I do think his German in X-men is better, I don't think this was done intentionally. This is just his accent.
+Nabiya Ri that is way Tarantino is genius. He pays attention to such small details.
DartLuke I seriously doubt this was intentional. I checked the X-men scene again and I'm sure the only reason his accent doesn't sound quite as strong is because the dialogue is a lot shorter.
I'm Austrian and i didn't notice anything at first but that's probably because i don't speak high german wich sounds snooty and arrogant for me anyway
the major is such a madlad that he closed his book without a bookmark, without so much as batting an eye. NOT A SIGN OF REMORSE!
He already knew that he would never come back to it
@@mayvic8078 Interesting perspective.
But as a book reader, you’d know where you left off just by looking at a few words on the page.
Because like other goose stepping morons he’d probably rather be burning books than reading them.
He won't need any bookmark anymore 😂
I´m german and no, I´m not a Nazi...but the uniforms were f*cking sweet back in the days.
Fucking right :D German soldiers knew how to dress.
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So...you're a german and not a nazi?!?!?!? This is madness!!! I thought they were synonyms :-O
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Only a matter of time till the first troll shows up.
try harder buddy :(
That major has one hell of a uniform.
hugo boss
Yeah meant that Gestapo officers were not to be fucked with
+MultiMrMiles
He wears a Leibstandarte uniform. Can be seen in a different scene.
wow, thanks, so i was close. Good looking out bro.
MultiMrMiles gestapo didn't use uniforms and totenkopf didn't use black uniforms they wore green/grey feldgrau, that is a early leibstandarte uniform
German sounds like a beautiful, sophisticated and precise language. Also, not to sound stereotypical but also the perfect language to shout out commands, just like Hugo Stiglitz does in this scene.
That's only when you have that Hitler accent. Otherwise orders would sound like shit to me, honestly...
Eric Cartman of course they would, Cartman. You don't respect anyone's authoritah!
jsphat81 No, but they gotta respect mine...
+jsphat81 l must say Fassbender speaks the German very well even thought he's lrish
+sebastian alegria actually he is half German half Irish (German father and Irish mother)
Tarantino is a genius. He managed to make Til Schweiger actually doing something resembling acting and talking. :-D
truefilm it’s hard acting in not your native tongue. Same goes to Asian actors/actresses. In the movie hero & crouching tiger etc, everyone is amazing, yet their English speaking roles are awful.
Ben you dont understand. Til schweiger is one of the worst german actors. His one and only good movie is inglorious bastards and thats because he dies.
Filippo Soraperra but he was good in "knocking on heaven's door". And I absolutely love that movie.
Liliya Leto thats your opinion. I just think he is horrific. My favorite german actor still is Daniel Brühl. (I dont consider waltz as german but rather austrian)
The whole pub sequence is something most directors wouldn’t be able to get away with. A minutes-long sequence in a foreign language, and a tell that only people familiar with that language and culture would be able to catch right away on the first viewing. The way he uses not just the camera, but sound throughout the scene tells the viewers everything they need to know.
August Diehl's performance is incredible in this film.
His arrogance and foolishness got everyone killed. He brought attention to the entire table by talking, not only talking but going on a tirade scolding the young german soldier. If he had just allowed another one of the Germans at the table to take care of the situation in a calmer manner. So many people would have lived. This scene is awesome, and it offers us all a lesson on not being impulsive.
Exactly, he also shouldn't have talked for so long
It wasn’t arrogance
He was doing what a stereotypical German officer would do
It’s just that the sergeant caught his accent and made a big deal about it cause he was drunk, instead of keeping it to himself
Which in turn, caught the attention of the SS officer
Historically though, the German anti-intelligence was absolutely terrible
The Brit’s were able to infiltrate almost everything except the German high command
They knew about a great number of attacks, and were able to coordinate a number of anti-intelligence operations themselves because of their infiltration
Something like this, at that time, wouldn’t have gone down how it happened in the film
I agree but I believe they were caught the minute they walked through that door. It was sealed after one of them spoke. You don't get past a a high ranking Nazi officer with such an elementary plan. I bet you "hypothetically" he knew they couldn't have existed because he knew all of his men.
it's a movie. no one died. they are characters
Everything happened because it's in the script, not because it would be "smarter" or makes "more sense"...everything in any movie is happening because it's in the script, that's always the answer.
Restaurant, everyone eating with their kids and laughing, then out of knowwhe-
*DÜRFTE ICH MICH VIELLEICHT ERKUNDIGEN*
I challenge you to do this at your next Denny's visit
The German part u wrote does that say
MIGHT I INQUIRE!
If so that LMaO
@@HarryPirsch007 WHAT THE FUCK IS UP DENNYS?!
I almost fucking spat my drink 😂 best comment
🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣
"Das ist ein Offizierstisch!", one of the rather tricky phrases, is done perfectly, the rest indeed pretty off for a "real German ear".
+MugiHasDeclined Do you suppose fastbender knew how to do a slightly off German accent or was that incidental?
+Robert Conlee incidental - his German is bound to be slightly off given his Irish background.
+Robert Conlee If I had to guess, I'd say Tarantino knew his accent would sound off naturally, and that's why he was chosen for the role. Otherwise there are hundreds of British actors who speak German from birth.
+The Acid Sausage It's the "r"'s, I think. I'm not even a native, but the way he just scratches his throat to make them is painful...Typical of non native German speakers that either roll their "r"s or use the English "r". And then he puts the stresses in the wrong places. Like the way he says "gesehen".
His accent should be slight off, because they need a character's Britishness to be revealed in the plot xD
Fassbender is doing quite a good job tbh... but as a german, no way anyone would have bought that story back then or even nowadays. It sounds just TOO english ;)
how
His accent is wy too obvious, you can totally hear he is english or american ;)
Indeed. He also overpronounces the Rs, you especially hear it in "zurückkehren". He did a good job. But like Johnny already said, no one would ever buy his story. No German sounds like that, no matter what region of Germany you come from.
I guess it is mostly his accentuation of the words in the whole sentence rather than the pronunciation of single letters of a word that sounds weird for a native German speaker. And another small mistake of him: In Germany it is impolite to name yourself first (even in the absence of the persons you name) as he did on min 2:50 while this is very common in English language. He should better say my father, my sister, my two brothers and myself ...
jigsaw89de
accentuation was probably the word I was looking for ´;-)
1:19 i love how the gestapo offficer enjoys the suspense
At the end he says, "You should rejoin your friends, I'll take it from here"
+Anibal Rendon i bet the SS major knew something was funny when he saw Stiglitz,
reemember every German soldier knew about him from the killings.
Yes, looks like a Obersturmbandfuehrer SS
The Gestapo was administered by officers of the SS.
Looks more like a Sturmbannführer, or major.
August Diehl is as amazing as Waltz tbh, he should have more screentime, shivers went down my spine seeing this scene
Yes totally!!!
that entrance was badass
+soldiermajor
The only reason it seemed badass is because everyone waited, was scared and he took his time and in an almost robotic manner, walked straight into the silent room.
The reason you wouldn't be able to achieve this nowadays, has nothing to do with personal composure, but the fact that, between shouting and arriving in the room, there would've been at least 6 people commenting on your words, including phones in the background and loud tv-screens talking about sports.
@@Widdekuu91 Imagine when you get to should out "Dürfte ich mich vielleicht erkundigen!" > close dat book > take a deep ciga breath > stand up > hold dat beer > stop the record player > slowly yet imtimidatingly move towards everyone in the room...
Damn that would surely make my day!!!
nobody mentions how perfect that one actor can play drunked. he plays perfectly like he would be really drunk.
True. There are very few actors who can convincingly play a drunk. Jude Law is one of them. Antonio Banderas is also pretty good.
Umm Mr Lahey from trailer park boys?
@@baskingindarknesspropane propane
August Diehl owns this scene!
A very underrated actor.
Dammit. The gestapo guy just happened to be a major and outranked them so they had to comply to his questioning them. Great scene.
fassbender speaking german is my sexuality
AHAHAHAHA
+Nolliminator When does he not?
+Nolliminator I hate Til Schweigers voice, unfortunately he's pretty famous
+Nolliminator Thank you Michael Fassbender, for making obviously-English-sounding German a thing with women!
His accent is the best I could ever hope to have as well.
+FlashakaViolet Not for me, but very good. My friend sold him an ice cream once in Hackney, she melted.
00:13 Hammersmark knew his accent wasn't going to fly and get them busted from the very beginning. Look at her reaction during that timestamp! Haha its the same face she had when Aldo tries to speak Italian to Landa. Lmfao
reason being that if he were from Piz Palü he would have a swiss german accent not a french one. Bad cover up story. Its like claiming to be from London and spaking in a scottish accent
@@OrkarIsberEstar Also I assume noone lives in piz palu its on the bloody mountains.
@@OrkarIsberEstar Well... that mountain is on the border between Italy and Switzerland, a very peripherical area, so it is a very nice cover up story since you can't really know how an accent from such isolated border area will sound.
@@unknownzzz5115 well just that it was in one of the most popular movies of the time, and that he actually should be fluent in italian as that would have been his first language, and german his secondary with a swiss german accent cause thats what would he have learned. Swiss german has a different dictionary from standard high german for many reasons
@@OrkarIsberEstar Thanks for the info!
1:16 - The fearless major showing his refined and intelligent side - Sitting in private and reading a book at candlelight while enjoying a beer and a smoke whilst a record plays.
Johann Sebastian Bach Or he's reading one of Hicox's books on German Cinema. Hicox was a film critic but had not seen any films made during the Third Reich since they weren't imported to the UK. Hellstrom is a film buff, Hicox expected him not to have seen that Reifenstahl film and was surprised. They later play a game of "Who am I?" and Hellstrom gives Hicox a German actress who was in a film from the Third Reich era knowing he wouldn't be able to get it since he's not seen any third Reich films. Hellstrom knew all along he was a English spy and was messing with him.
I don't think he knew all along. I think he suspected all along. He knew at the end.
May I correct you
Enjoying a beer in a shoe shaped cup
@@Jzphh damn, nice catch.
@@kevinmathewson4272 the 2 give away was the hand ordering another drink and the game itself. The suspension started with the accent. Tarantino wanted more suspense and complicated because the easiest way out of this is stiglitz should've been the captain, michael should just shutup no suspension would've been raised
"You should rejoin your friends.."
DRAGS HIM AWAY.
Lmfao! When the drunk soldier starts laughing along too!
E. Ar Lmao!
The first time watching this gave me chills when he walks outta the back & turns off the record.
I've seen German-language films before, but only after this film I started learning the language.
I freaking love this film.
What you love this film. Why? Another movie that dishonoured the german army and makes the jews out to be the victims by a director who's in bed with the jewish film industry.
@@taichihead42 holy shit can you shut the fuck up
Always searching for something to fucking pick on aye?
Fun at parties
@@taichihead42 bro don't sugarcoat, just admit u hate the jews
@@taichihead42 made the jews out to be victims?
@@taichihead42Try speaking like this in real life. You cant. You know it. You will be grabbed by your hair and thrashed around.
That is how we do it in our part of the world.
Dont think for a second, none is going to do that to you. These are turbulent times. Be very mindful of what you speak, 13 year old boi. You face consequences now or later.
German and Russian languages are badass in my opinion. I got to start learning them.
Try it xD
I've been taking German for five years now, it's pretty awesome. My neighbor also started teaching me Russian. It's worth learning
English comes from a german dialect so when you speak english german is easy.
Django Münchhausen I think vice versa. :D
Oğuzhan BİLGİN you can think what you want my friend ;)
Fassbender's pronunciation is almost perfect, but it's not the slight accent that would've given him away - it's his story about where he claims to be from. The Piz Palü is in Switzerland and every German knows what a Swiss accent sounds like and it's nothing like what Fassbender is speaking here. If this weren't just a movie, no German would've ever bought that story.
Yes, and then someone would have tried to speak to the alleged Swiss guy in the dialect of the area, or another Swiss dialect from an area nearby, and then he would have been unable to say anything.
Having the father join the laugh at 3:20 is so brilliant before having him dragged off to the other table
The Stiglitz's face at the end it's like "Ugh these idiots"
Why didnt he just keep his mouth shut..he knew German wasn't his first language..that's what ultimately got them in trouble
Because the guy was SS and he is the worst of the worst (Note he is in the Black Dress only worn on special occasions after 1939) and it is his duty
I was talk in about Hicox not the as gestopo major
george phillips are you dense? Clearly he is referring to Hilcox
Todd Spencer Didn't read it correctly ;p
Well idk maybe the SS officer would have gotten suspicious as hilcox would not have quieted the men as generally it is an officers duty to keep the men in line,
Well, the whole movie doesn't make sense at all.
Unrealistic. A German soldier would never ever wear his cap inside of a building.
Herr Robbenklopp true
typical hollywood American propaganda.
Autism speaks. Of all the unrealistic things of this movie you complain about his fucking hat.
I think since a cap is part of the uniform, soldiers wear it even inside a building. But yeah, I hate it when a wannabe gangster wears a cap inside a pub.
you dont wear a cap inside of a building. that's a no no
I like how the first part of this is basically a very eloquent "You're not cool enough to sit with us"
Yes but kinda no
Officers are not permitted to fraternise with non officers it would therefore be the officer sticking to protocol,
Chances are no one would be bothered to check up in a basement however the officer was bluffing that the private would be suitably threatened and take his leave and lo and behold a SS is listening in... IF the officer waited and the SS was to step in private would be reprimanded for not leaving the table and probably wouldnt catch the accented officer..
Irony
"you can't sit with us"
As a german I have to admit Fassbender is doing great. Not perfect but rly great! Like in the movie, I would still be very suspicious :D. You can clearly hear how hard he tries to maintain his german xD
DeaNizBack haha jawohl
Really? It all sounds so similar to a non speaker. Except slower and more like he's trying hard.
@@rangv733 as stated in the movie the accent is quite off, it sounds very french, but even germans who live near the french border dont have accents like that, it sounds like a frenchman speaking english. As native you clearly hear how his pronounciation is off, but given what ive heard of Fassbender in other mocvies he can spak perfect german but for this role it wouldnt have fit so he put on the accent on purpose and i can only applaud that, a lot of germans couldnt do that.
Oh and just to point that out the Pitz Palü isnt even a german or french mountain its swiss...i guess Tarantino tried to use a french sounding mountain to explain the slight french accent but that was a total mistake. First, the mountain is in Graubünden (state of switzerland) so he would have a swissgerman accent / dialect not a french one, also the swiss were never in the war and not in the wehrmacht so the "cover" just made him sound even more suspiscious.
@@OrkarIsberEstar Explains it really well. Thanks.
Obviuosly!, the character is not german, is english doing german!,. that's why they got in trouble!... don't you start your brains on before commenting?
2:59 - The Major never takes his eyes of Hicox while everyone else is speaking.
He is a hawk!
The look of anger on Stiglitz's face is awesome.
+Rob Hill lol I don't know if you know Til Schweiger in any other movies but I can assure you this is his acutal face. I've never seen him doing any other expression whatsoever
Yes its because stiglitz's is an austrian jew in real life, and he only took the rule of stiglitz's for the reason he can kill a lots of nazi in a brutal way..
the actor for Max is really good at being drunk, I wonder if they got him actually drunk for these scenes
He was hammered. Absolutely annihilated during this scene.
@@tangkhul_Tekken were you there?
Trueeee
His character's name was Wilhelm. Max was his son's name.
You never get boozed on set.
The whole bar scene was simply astonishing. Very well done in almost every aspect. Proof of Tarantino being a master.
the weirdest part is not Fassbinders accent, but he claims to be from Piz Palu which is located in Switzerland. Swiss were not allowed to join the regular SS, although there were about 1000 Swiss in the Waffen-SS (which is however not the uniform Fassbinders is wearing).
+Dan Myshkin Fassbender's role was of a regular Wehrmacht soldier. Not sure about the SS though but there were many non-German enlisted men in Germany's regular army.
+Daniel Meléndez Then what's up with his collar? I'm pretty sure the 1944 Wehrmacht never had SS flashes
+Dan Myshkin Actually there is no difference between SS and Waffen SS to be in WF-SS you had to be a memeber of the SS. So Fassbinders uniform could be from the Waffen SS indeed it appears as such. And both the S.S and Waffen SS accept foreign volunteers especeally if they were of Germanic and European background as is the case of the Swiss.
+Daniel Meléndez The Wehrmacth on another hand only accept "Imperial Germans" that is Germans borned in the Reich.
+Imperial Guardsman it's true, many italians from Alto Adige (Sudtirol in german), the region near Austria with a majority of german speaking people, were recruited in SS
I always love when Stiglitz grabs Wilhelm and reprimands him. You can tell Stiglitz had been in Wilhelm's position in the past and was drawing on how officers would tell him off.
After this movie, my brother became an enthusiast in European cinema of 1960s to 1970s.
After this scene, he also decided to become a multilinguist.
My brother decided to be a Nazi after this scene
"I was speaking to captain I-don't-know-what"
er sagt "Hauptsturmführer Heimatlos hier (homeless here):"
Cobb die transferierung kommt aufs gleiche hinaus
what does willhelm say to hammersmark after the shoot out? he says something about American and bad times but can you give me the German text? I'm learning it
+Karl Lagerfeuer
Nein, es hat die Konnotation "Im Gegensatz zu den beiden anderen Typen, die ich anhand ihrer Sprachfärbung problemlos nach München und Frankfurt einordnen kann, werde ich aus dem dritten überhaupt nicht schlau, und das macht mich ziemlich misstrauisch."
Captain homeless! Haha, was für eine falsche Übersetzung
Nein!! Nein!!! Nein!!!!
I love Tarantino's use of BGM, or lack thereof. His tense scenes are so quiet you can hear your inner thoughts.
Many years ago I read a book on Operation Barbarossa, it was a very thick (and old) book written by historians and military experts. I remember in one of the chapters they talked about how the SS prepared their people, as well as Wehrmacht officers, to recognise soviet spies based on their behaviour and gestures. They pintpointed gestrures common to the Soviets and said, ok now we as officers should refrain from making these gestures, even when it comes natural to some of us; this way you know or at least suspect, which is close enough (after a short interrogation you know for sure). I'm sure this was the case also for the brits, and Tarantino would have read about it in the research he said to have carried prior to making the film. So, maybe there are also Germans who use the "crown fingers" to indicate three (I know there are British who use their thumb for that purpose), but for an SS officer this, together with a weird accent - which was not that weird by the way -, this was enough for a proof.
there are British who use their thumb for signaling three?
whats the name of the book?
name drop the book please? I'm so curious
MIGHT I INQUIRE?
What a cool bastard sitting on his own drinking beer from a glass boot
Favourite scene
If Fassbender had have just told the Major to go home and get his shine box in German this whole thing could have been avoided
"Might I inquire ?" And the course of the scene changes. What a masterpiece from QT. Every performace in this movie was brilliant.
1:13 the beginning of the end😬😬😬
lol exactly
Dude was perfectly enjoying his beer.
WHAT DOES HE SAYS!? (in german please)
Same question...
dürfte ich mich vielleicht erkundigen!?
Both Michael Fassbender and August Diehl were so brilliant in this scene
I wonder what book Major Hellstrom was reading that he'll never get to finish...
the talmud.
Lol
Communist Manifesto. He never finished it because whenever he read it he thinking " vat ze hell ist diz?! Diz ist make non sense"
Winnetou by Karl May
It was probably Websters' guide to foreign accents" lol
Now, I want to learn German.
really?
Anja Reissig Ja.
well, that's not gonna be an easy thing I suppose
+Kinos141 The app Duolingo and the TH-cam series Easy German (both free). My spoken/written grammar isn't perfect, but I can understand spoken German (as long as they aren't rattling off 100 words per minute) and I'm reading German books now.
reading books is really the best way to learn a language!
I speak Dutch and I can hear very clear the accent.
For me it's the pitch of the voice. I don't speak German but have worked with many for many years along with other nationalities and clearly we don't speak on the same pitch. English speakers have a low pitch, Germans are slightly higher and French and other Romance language peoples are the highest. I can't tell whether his German is good but his voice is certainly English or North American (I know he's English).
this scene made me want to learn German, the most beautiful languages when talking are German and English spoken by British
same. this whole movie made me want to learn German :3
I find it attractive :p Probably beacause english is not my mother tongue..
it's arabic, french is my second language (I can write and speak like a native) english is my third (I still make some flaws though) and now I'm learning german (and later i want to learn russian)
no.. but i know some words
i was able to learn french and english fast because school made us learn them in elementary school
ameya oola it is :p
Major Hellstorm is underrated as a villain; he's so elegantly formal, classt and yet silently threatening, a nice contrast to Landa.
This is without doubt the best part in the entire movie. Personally I think Fassbenders character was massively underused in this film he even play it great as Lt Archie Cox his accent in this scene is supposed to give him away that's the genius of it!
I don't really know if Daniel Brühl's acting came across for people who don't speak German, but it is spot on. He is charming, determined and confident at the same time, which is excalty to be expected from SS officers, where sycophancy, ruthlessness and appearance were valued way higher than actual efficency. Same goes for Cristoph Waltz. I am from Vienna and he acts and talks exactly like someone you would meet in the Vienna State Opera going to see something by Richard Wagner.
The Gestapo officer here is not Daniel Brühl, it's August Diehl.
What I like about these scene so much is two things - 1) the purity of the German language (at the time) that a native German can recognize a discrepancy, and 2) the dramatics of it like when the Major gets up and has to turn off the xylophone and everyone is just quiet and waiting for him to deliver.... Amazing scene just like the rest of the movie!
This bar scene is gripping. I never get tired of watching it. Probably the best part of the film. Obviously , one who didn’t speak german would never detect the accents. Fabulous filmaking!
That german actor was very good
1:14
That German dude terrifies the fuck out of me. Lol. Hes a pretty good actor
Oh yes, you can tell that he's onto sth.. and about to get you in trouble..
How August diehl puts the LP on the Grammophon is a hilarious idea. Now he is in charge in this tavern. In Austria/Germany we say:"alles spielt nach seiner Musik!", which directly translated means:"everything is up to his music, which means, that everybody has to act like he wants to. You can see it because he becomes the cenrte of the camera. Everything depends now on him. Well not extremely difficult or smart, but still extremely fitting for taratinos style and for the scene. This is how extraordinary films are created.
In Russian language there is the same phrase, which literally is translated as "the one who orders music".
And it's interesting perspective from this point of view👍
I must say this SS officer is very good at his job.
By the way, just to notice the fact that Piz Palü is a wonderful summit in the Bernina Massiv. You have a wonderful view of this giant monster Glacier from the ski resort Diavolezza (and one of the most impressive ski route through Glacier in the Alps, where you can find an igloo in the middle of nowhere and pay your beer contactless with your phone!). And the only fact that people may still a bit doubt about his accent is the fact that in this region, people speaks a quite rare language with also a very non common accent (although that you can recognize, that he has an English/American accent, but at this time, it wasn't common for people to identify it like today due to movies! I remember not having identified an American accent of a guy speaking very good French when I was young!).
I love how Tarantino plays with tension in this scene.
When Wilhelm (the drunk father) notices Fassbenders accent we get a slight spike in tension, because we are afraid that he's going to get found out. When he gets yelled at is ordered off the table tho there is a small point of relief, immediately followed by the gestapo officer announcing himself and entering the scene; huge tension spike. Fassbender keeps it cool tho, using his knowledge of the German film scene to talk his way out of it and the gestapo officer seems like he believes him. They even all start laughing which really let's the viewer breathe a sigh of relief, since it seems like the conflict is resolved.
However this is immediately falsified as soon as the gestapo officer has Wilhelm dragged away in that really dry, serious tone.
It is at this point that the viewer realizes, that the conflict and the battle of wits between the two, has just begun.
All of this and so much more in 3 and a half minutes of screen time. God damn Tarantino, you're a legend
You know, he could’ve just gotten away with saying he was raised in England as a child and returned to Germany since it was still pretty common for wealthier families of noble descent to move around
It would even explain his use of the fingers counting up to 3. In fact, he could of even said he was a German who answered the call of Germany and returned to the fatherland, which is even more believable because LOTS of foreign born Germans went to Germany to fight for the German army, not necessarily for the NAZI party but the call of the fatherland.
The amazing thing that most people are missing here in this scene is that Major Hellstrom (the SS officer in black outfit) could recognize both accents of the two germans disguised as officers, one of them got a thick bavarian accent from Munich while the other one's got a hesse accent from Frankfurt. I thought first when I saw this scene that he recognized them by their dress code, like a german officer from Munich would wear a particular outfit other than the one of an officer from Frankfurt. But now after connecting the dots backwards this scene just baffled me, the screenwriting and the acting here is just too damn good.
So that why he call Wicky and Stiglitz by those names.
Til Schweiger (Actor of Hugo Stiglitz) went to school in Gießen which is about 37 miles away from Frankfurt. Very accurate actually
I hate how people who are stating the obvious find it "amazing" smh
People from Munich never had a thick Bavarian accent though, Munich Bavarian was always a bit more subtle and "elegant". Noticeable Bavarian, but very easily distinguished from other parts. Nowadays of course it has almost disappeared completely and people in munich speak standard German.
You can clearly hear that somethings wrong with his German, it sounds too English/American. The word intonation, pauses and speed between the sentences. Just suspicious
OverTheTop well he isn't German.
Brandon Gooding
False. He was born in Germany.
Pay Wilson aka. Pay der Chiller yeah but he didn't grow up in Germany.
Felipe27 rey
yeah thats true
I love the atmosphere entirely went still when Hellstorm spoke, so quiet we can hear the vinyl that we didnt ever know eas playing, and his slow, paced, self assured walk really made an impression!!
As a German it is still hilarous to me, that he talks about Fassbenders "strange" german language, if Till Schweiger is talking.
For those who do not know: Till Schweigers was of talking is very strange for Germans.
And Fassbenders is amazing!
1:05 I love listening to Germans yell order like that😂
Ikr
When Stiglitz starts yelling out orders in German it made me want to learn German
I'm not even German (I'm Brazilian btw) and somehow I could spot some differences between Fassbender's German and SS officer's German. Amazing! I'm struggling to learn German, but this language is amazing indeed.
I'm also Brazilian and after watching this movie I'm very interested in learning German, it's a fantastic language
i love the timing at the end where hellstrom tells the soldiers to take the sergeant back to the table. just gets dragged away like that.
It reminds me a bit of Django Unchained when Django asks the slave to say goodbye to the mistress.
Love the German language so much. Hope to be fluent by the time I’m done with school
Und? Wie sieht's aus?
I am so late to finally watch this movie. This scene is remarkable: Even if we watch it many times, the intense is still there. Agree, those actors are very brilliant. Unbelievable.
I love the way August Diehl entered the scene:D:) I watched this movie a few times after the first initial time, to see this guy:) He's amazing in this movie - through and through...despite him playing a Gestapo officer...:) And, man, I love the uniform:)
Цей фільм є іронія на всі шпіонські фільми. Моя улюблена сцена, де бред пітт говорить італійською
they actually revoiced him in the german version lol
rocketFucHs The decision to dub this movie in any language is absolutely retarded
BraydenMiller stfu
What i was always wondering about is why the SS-guy in black didnt recognize the english accent, because you clearly can hear it.
that is stereotypically american of you - you really think everyone on this planet who's not from the US can understand a word brad pitt is saying in this movie?
Pitts texan is hard to understand
I can hear the accent by how softly and smoothly he pronounces each sentence.
This entire scene is a masterpiece by itself.
Easily the best Tarantino movie. The way he created tension in this flick with the help of all these amazing actors was not present in any other of his work, including the Pulp Fiction as well. He easily outdid himself here by making this satirical masterpiece, instead of making yet another cheesy gorefest like he's usually used to
every actor in this scene is great, but August Diehl, oh boy...
The most quiet german conversation:
01:13 me gusta como suena el alemán, autoridad en estado puro.
I love this scene but it also bothers me every time I watch the movie.
Hugo Stiglitz was on all the newspapers, his face is well know and Dieter Hellstrom (portrayed as a sharp and well-informed fellow) should have recognized him immediately, say "fair enough" after Magneto's explanations, get out of the bar to get some sober soldiers outside, and storm the pub.
Landa immediately recognized Hugo's body when he investigates the incident. But Dieter doesn't?
Or he recognized him and played his little game, which was pretty stupid since he is outnumbered 3 to 1 and his back-up are a few pissed-drunk soldiers celebrating at the next table.
But the "he recognized them but was just playing along for whatever reason" isn't full-proof, when Magneto makes the hand sign for 3, it looks like he finally realizes everything and takes rather suicidal actions.
I don't know what to make of this (still great) scene, if anyone could help me out that would be great.
Merci et au revoir les amis o/
I'm curious too, especially since he pats his back harshly, as if to say "I know you"
Well, Stiglitz does seem to fit the bill of the "average while male".... But I see where you're going with that. With the war going on perhaps everyone wasn't able to see what he looked like through news paper or other media?I feel that if Hickox (Michael Fassbender) hadn't signified three in very English [non-German] way that they would have likely survived the encounter... perhaps Hellstrom would have followed them out to attempt a solo-ambush, however we will probably never know unless we were to ask Tarantino for his thoughts on the subject.
Thanks for your opinions guys, food for thought...
I didn't know what "monkeyshine" was TBH, I'm French and English is my 3rd language (after German, so this movie was a treat for me languages-wise); & I don't get all the slang. .
I had assumed he meant the alcohol, must have made this assumption because I know the word "moonshine", and he said that sentence just after finishing his "boot-pint" (fun fact, you can see the exact same glass in the Texas Chili Parlor from "Death Proof"... Quentin and his foot fetish, tss tss ^^)
Haha now I'm even more confused, but oh well, some of the best Tarantino movies have some small plot-holes, no biggie.
Thanks to ya all again o/
Randall Flagg
Monkeyshines is "slang" for mischievous behavior
Alan Schulte
Thanks, every time I watch this movie I make a mental note to check what it means but always forget ^^'
Makes sense, thanks. The more you know...
I found it funny when they all started laughing and Stiglitz is just sitting there playing with his thumbs, waiting for the Major to go away lol
As a german i can say that you can clearly hear that he is not german :DDDDDDD
1:20 - He does not exhale the smoke... ;)
+Saul Goodman
You have no idea how much that bothers me >
I always believe 1:13 is one of the greatest editing in history of cinema
Each ego is larger than the previous ego. Such a great scene.
34 seconds between his initial "Dürfte ich mich vielleicht erkundigen" and his next line. THAT'S authority and domination with silence.
that face of everyone in and outside the movie when the Major Hellstrom shows up...
Even the supporting cast are a lot of well-known actors in Germany just like the host who's name is Christian Berkel. He played the late german chancellor Helmut Schmidt two times and nailed it.
Understanding German and hearing the accents makes this even better
He counted wrong. I lived in Germany for almost 3yrs I still count starting with my thumb
Those SS uniforms are freaking sexy
superb best actor major with a gentle killer smile!!
I wish there was a word to describe how perfect the german word "heimatlos" fits into the description of the called officer.
He called the other ones by city names (Munich & Frankfurt), but goes on and calls the last unknown one "heimatlos".
Heimatlos, is basically someone without a homeland? Is that the best to describe it? Idk, but you get the idea.
Yea - "heimatlos" basically means "homeland-less". But "Heim" can mean so much more than "home". When something is "unheimlich" (lit.: "un-home-ish") it actually means uncanny. So the word "Heimatlos" has, in itself, a sinister feeling to it.
Quentin Tarrantino I one of my all time favorite directors, and for me what he does best is capture a scene. I absolutely love his movies, but what I think has made him such a legend is him creating that signature scene. In Pulp Fiction the "say what again" scene, the torture scene from Mr. Blonde in Reservoir Dogs, in Kill Bill the fight against the Crazy 88 and O-Ren Ishii, and of course in Inglorious Basterds the bar scene. To many others they could pick out different scenes for each movie but for me those were some of the most memorable scenes, in amazing movies.
In jackie brown the parking lot scene. In once upon the flamethrower. In django leo cutting his hand or more so the end shoot out.